Cold climate plants in a warmer world

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 285-297

  Crawford, Robert M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpine; Arctic; Climate change; Genetic diversity; Migration; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Physiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010521511     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550870802407332     Document Type: Article

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